Thursday, December 8, 2016

Finding Frozen Mummies in One of the World’s Tallest Mountain Ranges (video)

Johan
Reinhard is a forerunner in the study of high-altitude archaeology.

Focusing on
ancient peoples, his trips regularly take him up mountains, underwater, and
into jungles. His team also found something you don’t see any old day: frozen
Inca mummies.

Explorers
are often seen as pioneers, but National Geographic Explorer and Rolex Laureate
Johan Reinhard is a pioneer in the field of exploration itself. He was a
forerunner in the study of high-altitude archaeology, the research of sites at
17,000 feet and above. Focusing on ancient peoples and their cultures, Reinhard’s
trips regularly take him up mountains, underwater, and deep into jungles. On
expeditions to the Andes Mountains in Peru, he’s found Inca artifacts that are
so well-preserved, they look brand new. He and his team also discovered
something in the 1990s that you don’t find out in the field just any old day:
frozen Inca mummies. The mummies, left as human sacrifices some 500 years ago,
were almost perfectly preserved. His venture has since led to more than a dozen
frozen Inca human sacrifices found across five mountains in the Andes!
Reinhard’s exploration and discovery of the Inca artifacts was a first, as the
sites had been virtually inaccessible before then due to the high altitudes.

You might
call Reinhard an “explorer’s explorer” – he isn’t just going out and studying
places that other explorers have already covered. As a high-altitude
archaeologist, Reinhard sets his sights on new, uncharted territory and
discovers historical treasures for the very first time.

AWAKENING FOR ALL!!!

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